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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My god some of you really need to take a look at this map. On all sides the  Hutchinson site is surrounded by low income areas. Clearview, lake Anne, Herndon to the north and Dogwood/Coates to the south. Other poster is correct in asserting that Hutchinson HS will be the Mount Vernon of Western Fairfax. And in turn the closest areas from overcrowded Centreville/Chantilly to Westfield are the low income areas of Brookfield/Centre ridge/Bull Run. It seems all but likely that Hutchinson HS will be built and Westfield HS will be triaged to improve the other pyramids in Western Fairfax.

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Elementary%20School%20Boundaries%20With%20High%20School%20Boundaries.pdf

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Elementary%20School%20Boundaries%20With%20High%20School%20Boundaries.pdf[/quote]

Except that's not how they'd draw the boundaries.

They aren't going to load up Western HS with all those schools.  More likely it would be Hutchison, Coates, McNair, part of Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill.

Pulling Hutchison out of Herndon will allow them to move Forestville and part of Great Falls to Herndon.  That would reduce the concentration of poverty at Herndon and create space at Langley to accommodate growth further east planned in Tysons.

Pulling Coates, McNair, and part of Floris out of Westfield would allow them to move Bull Run from Centreville and potentially move Willow Springs out of Fairfax to Centreville.

Moving Oak Hill out of Chantilly would relieve overcrowding there.

Pulling Fox Mill out of South Lakes would enable South Lakes, if necessary, to take more of Crossfield if Oakton were overcrowded.

Of course this is conjecture, but (1) they won't create "Mount Vernon West" if they build at Hutchison and (2) any new high school will inevitably result in many boundary changes. [/quote]

We will have to check back on this thread in four years to see who is right! Will proximity and the standard of concentrating Poverty be the standard or will the school board truly embrace an “equity” model for once? [/quote]

We won't know in four years.  Maybe eight if they plan ahead.

But the "Hutchison, Coates, McNair, part of Floris, Oak Hill, and Fox Mill" model isn't one or the other. It would be a relatively compact and contiguous area that might be somewhat higher than average FARMS for FCPS but not at Mount Vernon/Lewis/Justice levels with two high-FARMS feeders (Hutchison, Coates), one average FARMS feeder (McNair), and two and a half low-FARMS feeders (Oak Hill, Fox Mill and 1/2 of Floris).

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